Travis Bickle

Travis Bickle (1950-) was an American Taxi Cab driver turned vigilante. Bickle served in the Marines during the Vietnam War before he was honorably discharged in 1973. After the war he began driving cab in New York, he drove taxi constantly due to him not being able to sleep from PTSD. In 1976 he killed Matthew Higgins, a pimp in Harlem along with two of his body guards in an apartment. He was wounded badly in the gunfight but he survived and was hailed as a hero much to his displeasure.